/lit/ could you please give me a quick gestalt on this man? I've

>Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

>It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’

>>9326401
Why is he so popular though?

>>9326410
He's popular because he was incredibly intelligent and was an excellent writer, as well as one of the most important postmodern thinkers. His novel Infinite Jest is a best seller and one of the most frequently discussed books on this board, meme or serious.
The quotes in >>9326401 are from a literary critic who is of course pompous and got extremely salty because DFW called his writing shit in Infinite Jest

>>9326436
>DFW called his writing shit in Infinite Jest
based DFW
rip

>>9326394
He is considered THE writer of a generation, and there is something very sad, and banal about that.

>>9326468
XD, epicly memed :)